May 2010 Postcard: Don't Gut the Clean Air Act

 

The Clean Air Act is the primary national legislative tool we have right now to fight climate change and we need to make sure it stays intact.  The Clean Air Act is already being used by the Obama Administration to ease our addiction to oil by tightening fuel mileage standards, and is in the initial phases of being used to crack down on the oldest, dirtiest coal plants.  These are real opportunities to transition to a clean energy future that need to be preserved.

Congress has to make a clear choice: Support the Clean Air Act to fight against climate change and support a clean energy economy that will provide millions of stable jobs for years to come, or give in to polluters that selfishly want to block America from moving to a clean energy future.

Thousands of American businesses are waiting for Congress to set a stable, predictable clean energy and climate policy that will unlock billions of dollars in job-creating clean energy investments, but the current efforts to undermine the Clean Air Act would derail this long-overdue progress. 

We need the EPA's authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate global warming pollution and crack down on dirty coal power plants. If the EPA loses this power, it would strip away one of the strongest tools we have to limit carbon pollution, to transition to a clean energy economy that will create millions of jobs, and to tackle climate change.

Urge them to stop any effort to gut the Clean Air Act. 

Call: You can phone the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121. A switchboard operator will connect you directly with the Senate office you request. You can leave a brief message with the staff person who answers your call.

Email: You can find your Senators’ web site contacts at:http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm where you can send them a personal e-mail message. 

Write: Senator [first name, last name], US Senate, Washington, DC 20510.  (A postcard will arrive faster than a letter in an envelope.)

Photo: Tso Moriri Lake, shared by Flickr user Prabhu B under a Creative Commons license. Each 2020 Action postcard will feature a photo that celebrates the beauty and wonder of the natural world we are working to preserve.

 

Comments

[Elissa]

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